WHERE ARE THEY NOW? old imdb1 classic board posters we miss.

Thanks maybe he was a film hack though - he'd mentioned he was working on screenplays - I'd never enquired if  if he'd had any actually filmed.(I'm aware that we may have the odd "celeb" amongst our happy band who may wish the pleasures of anonymity and am wary of pushing too hard on persional detail if folk say they are active participants in the flic biz). But he definitely merits an occupation with qull in hand. And so do the rest of us.

I'm so jealous you met Chuck, claudius . How was he - Huge fan. Don't really give a monkeys about his views on guns - not my views but he was entitled to his own. More significant is that he has been described as "an axiom of cinema" In truth I prefer the 50s ones - I think he got a shade duller and a lot less sexy after the oscar. My favourites (not neccessarily the "best") would be

1 TOUCH OF EVIL ( "Cultural appropriation" ?- Blow me! - I'll totally buy the argument today but we are on a fool's errand  applying 2020 sensibilities to 1958 cultural artefacts)

2 THE BIG COUNTRY

3 RUBY GENTRY - the sexiest swamp in cinematic history

4 THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH - the definitive "take charge guy"

5 THE NAKED JUNGLE

I thought GRAY LADY DOWN was neglected - tense, solid, well acted (Ronny Cox esp fine) submarine-being-slowly-flooded suspenser with Chuck trying to seal those hatches!

Heston heating up that swamp in RUBY GENTRY with Widow Selznick - aren't they just so dirty?

Here is Ray Charles singing the wonderful title tune although this version came after the film, where we just get an instrumental. Definitely a favourite theme tune tough

and here is the film itself for anyone interested.